Southern African Customs Union

Develop and implement Trade Facilitation and Customs initiatives to enhance and ease cross-border trade in the Common Customs Area, and to ease market access for businesses that are trading in the SACU countries in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, & and South Africa

Deputy Director: Trade Facilitation

Global Blockchain Initiative (GBI)

Delivering and facilitation of training on the basics of Blockchain Technology and its use cases for startups and various sectors of the economy
Recruitment of students to join the Global Blockchain Initiative Training
Planning Team for the GBI

Founding Member and Local Hub Lead, South Africa 

Global Startup Ecosystem (GSE)

African startups training on New Technologies-AI, IoT, Blockchain, Nanotechnology, 3D, Machine Learning

Accelerator 

Africa Global Connect Consultancy

Consultancy on Trade Facilitation, Customs, Trade Policy, Regional Integration, and Export readiness program for SMEs. Training SMEs on market access requirements and rules for businesses in Africa and globally

Managing Director/Independent Consultant

TradeMark Southern Africa 

Developed and facilitated implementation of trade facilitation initiatives for East and Southern African Customs Administrations to capacitate their teams on the implementation of the market access instruments for businesses under the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (COMESA-SADC and EAC)

Carried out a Technical, Financial, and Capacity Building Needs Analysis/Gap Analysis for the World Trade Organization in Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to support negotiations of the World Trade Organisation Trade Facilitation Agreement to ease market access for businesses globally

Customs and Trade Facilitation Expert

SARS

Provided policy advice on trade facilitation, customs, diplomacy, market access trade agreements. I also coordinated inter-governmental support and interventions or regional integration, and worked on  stakeholders management strategy for engagement with businesses on customs and trade rules and regulations.

Manager: International Customs

South African Government (Sass) 

Provided technical support for business trade fairs for Small, Medium, and Large Businesses to showcase their products and services. Supported business leads and business matchmaking initiatives. Provided Policy Analysis and Research on Political Economy and performed diplomatic services.

Research Analyst

Standard Bank Group

Managed and coordinated technical work and research for respective Directors and Senior Managers responsible for Wealth Products, Mergers and Acquisitions, Policy Analysis, IT, and Legal.  I also held a position of Personal Assistance to the Head of Human Resources. Client service and relationship management has been some of the additional responsibilities I undertook.

Office Manager & Personal Assistant

I am a Trade Facilitation Expert, Advisor, and Mentor with more than 22 years' experience, and 80,000+ hours of work on trade facilitation, customs, supporting negotiations and implementation of market access trade agreements signed amongst  African countries & countries outside of Africa, diplomacy, research, and analysis. 

"Africa possesses untapped opportunities in many sectors of the economy. The possibilities are endless, and I believe Africa is the future" Maggie Tladi

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